FieldExtractor

The FieldExtractor class defines which properties are extracted from Form Fields and made available in the rendering context.

Extractors are registered in the sniplates.EXTRACTOR dict, mapping the Field class name to the exploder class to use.

The default FieldExtractor copies the following attributes from the BoundField:

  • css_classes
  • errors
  • field
  • form
  • help_text
  • html_name
  • id_for_label
  • label
  • name

It also copies the following attributse from the Field:

  • widget
  • required

In addition, it will lazily evaluate the following:

raw_value
The raw value of the field.
value
The raw value forced to text.
display
The matching display value from the choices list for the current value, if this field has a value and a choices list. Otherwise empty string.
choices
A tuple of ChoiceWrapper instances. ChoiceWrapper is a named tuple with the attributes value and display. It has one extra method: is_group which returns True for option-groups. ChoiceWrapper.value is forced to text.

Sub-classes provided

Three FieldExtractor sub-classes are provided out of the box:

FileFieldExtractor adds file_size and url to the context.

ImageFieldExtractor extends FileFieldExtractor, and adds length and width also.

NullBooleanFieldExtractor makes NullBooleanField compatible with the default Select widget.

Providing your own extractors

It’s possible to write your own extractor and add it to Sniplates. You can use Django’s django.apps.AppConfig for this.

Example:

# file myapp/extractors.py

from sniplates.templatetags.sniplates import FieldExtractor


class MultipleModelChoiceExtractor(FieldExtractor):

    @property
    def selected_instances(self):
        queryset = self.form_field.field.queryset
        if len(self.raw_value):
            return queryset.filter(pk__in=self.raw_value)
        return queryset.none()

This would give you access to the queryset of selected instances in the field widget:

{% for obj in selected_instances %}
    {{ obj }}
{% endfor %}

Registering it with Sniplates is done with the AppConfig:

# myapp/apps.py

from django.apps import AppConfig


class KitsConfig(AppConfig):
    name = 'myapp'

    def ready(self):
        # register the custom extractor
        from sniplates.templatetags.sniplates import EXTRACTOR
        from .extractors import MultipleModelChoiceExtractor
        EXTRACTOR['MultipleModelChoiceField'] = MultipleModelChoiceExtractor